Island, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Potshot Lake unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55736. The Survey maps it on the Island quadrangle.

Island within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Island quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Aitkin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 244 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance	17
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
10 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 June 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 June 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2005	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 May 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hartley Spur	1.0 miles	6
Floodwood	6.3 miles	6
Gowan	12.2 miles	7
Elmer	14.9 miles	8
Hull	15.4 miles	8
Paupores	15.4 miles	7
Meadowlands	16.0 miles	10
Toivola	16.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661560. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.